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01659aam a2200265 i 4500 001 972F31E6390111EF921F5BD751ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240703010044 008 240204s2024 nyu e 000 f eng d 020 $a 9798888454596 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Goodman, Eric, $e author. 245 10 $a Curveball : $b a novel / $c Eric Goodman. 264 1 $a New York : $b Post Hill Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 271 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "A star rookie pitcher is making a statement in his first major league season--but will the secret he's been keeping detail everything he's been working toward? Jess Singer, pitching prodigy and son of the infamous Jewish Joe Singer--who starred on the mound for the same MLB team twenty-five years earlier--is blessed with a plus-plus curveball, possesses immense athletic abilities, and is on the fast-track to stardom. But he's harboring perhaps the most potent secret a professional athlete can possess: his sexual preference. ...[F]ollowing three generations of Singers during Jess's first year in The Show, Eric Goodman imagines what life might be like for a gay baseball player. Will Jess live in a confined closet or do what no baseball player has done yet?" -- $c From dust jacket & page 4 of cover. 610 20 $a Major League Baseball (Organization) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rookie baseball players $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gay athletes $v Fiction. 655 7 $a LGBTQ+ fiction. $2 homoit 655 7 $a Sports fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Gay fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240703010221.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=972F31E6390111EF921F5BD751ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search